On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:24 -0800 Mike Connors <[email protected]> dijo:
>John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I have never used the ln command before, but now I need to. >> >> The problem is that the no-go version of OOo 3.1.1 that Fedora has in >> their repositories removes a lot of features. Evidently Fedora >> thought their users wouldn't notice. I need the features, so I >> uninstalled the Fedora version and then installed the official OOo >> version from www.openoffice.org. >> >> Everything was cool when I first launched it. But when I tried to >> launch it again it would not launch. From the command line I get the >> error message that it can't find libuno_sal.so.3. Much googling >> reveals that for some reason the link to it gets broken when the >> official version of OOo is installed on Fedora. (And only Fedora.) >> >Ah, I thought I recalled you mentioning "Fedora". I found this thread >regarding probs w. the Fedora OOo pkg vs. the pkg from OOo. > >http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/135865-openoffice-will-not-start.html I had already found that page, and several other similar pages. Most of them related to older versions of OOo / Fedora so the instructions did not match my problem. And I just now discovered what happened - user error. You see, until a couple months ago I lived in the Debian world, so I was unfamiliar with using yum. When I installed the packages from OOo the first time I followed their instructions and used the rpm command from within the folder containing the .rpm packages. But there is another package in a subfolder called desktop-integration. I distinctly remember installing it with yum because rpm wouldn't install it. This time around I did the same thing, but I noticed that yum was downloading something. I quickly used yum to erase the package that it downloaded, and then read more carefully the error line from the previous attempt with rpm. It wouldn't install it because there was a later package already installed. So this time I uninstalled the later existing package with yum and then installed the one from OOo with rpm. I get it now: apt-get / aptitude = yum dpkg = rpm The whole problem was caused by using the wrong desktop integration package for the version of OOo I had installed. And as corroboration, Update Software now lists an update available for the package. I'm off to figure out how to make yum ignore that particular update, lest I mistakenly install it some day. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
